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Author Kunstler, James Howard.

Title The long emergency : surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler.

Publication Info. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  303.4973 KUNSTLER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  303.4973 KUN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  303.49 KUN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  303.4973 KU    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description vii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Sleepwalking into the future -- Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma -- Geopolitics and the global oil peak -- Beyond oil: why alternative fuels won't rescue us -- Nature bites back: climate change, epidemic disease, water scarcity, habitat destruction, and the dark side of the industrial age -- Running on fumes: the hallucinated economy -- Living in the long emergency.
Subject Petroleum as fuel -- United States -- Social aspects.
Fossil fuels -- United States -- Social aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Renewable energy sources -- United States -- Social aspects.
Climate and civilization.
Environmentalism -- United States -- Social aspects.
ISBN 0871138883
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